Domestic Thursday: Double the Bubbles

 Today was supposed to be a day of rest. With a doctor's appointment scheduled for the morning, I decided to take the whole frigging day off. My guidelines for when and why to choose work? If I will be spending as much time on the bus as I will at the job, then I might as well not go. And all was well, all was good, yoga classes were planned and library fines paid off... and then I called Rogers.

Nearly two hours of combined hold time later, I was done. Not only with that telecommunications company, but with the day. I didn't much feel like browsing the very limited beer selection in my neighbourhood LCBO for this week's installment of Domestic Thursday, so off I went to 3030.

This Red Ale is the first Church-Key beer I've covered on this blog, and it's an odd one. Not flavour-wise - it's a pretty mild red ale, noticeable carbonation, and a high note that made me think peach. It was just a little strange to have it in the context of the last Church-Key beer I had tried, which was the rather intense Holy Smoke. This one needs something else. Hockey, maybe. Or food.

And on to my related domestic endeavour... the production of closet beer. It's a maple stout, and so far it's merrily fermenting in my closet. I keep on threatening to call it Pride Beer once it's bottled and out of the closet. And hopefully, some of you will threaten to punch me for making such an awful, awful pun.